It's not a lie if you don't get caught: simplifying reconfiguration in SMR through dirty logs
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| author | Clement, Allen Crooks, Natacha Giridharan, Neil Shamis, Alex |
| author_facet | Clement, Allen Crooks, Natacha Giridharan, Neil Shamis, Alex |
| contents | Production state-machine replication (SMR) implementations are complex, multi-layered architectures comprising data dissemination, ordering, execution, and reconfiguration components. Existing research consensus protocols rarely discuss reconfiguration. Those that do tightly couple membership changes to a specific algorithm. This prevents the independent upgrade of individual building blocks and forces expensive downtime when transitioning to new protocol implementations. Instead, modularity is essential for maintainability and system evolution in production deployments. We present Gauss, a reconfiguration engine designed to treat consensus protocols as interchangeable modules. By introducing a distinction between a consensus protocol's inner log and a sanitized outer log exposed to the RSM node, Gauss allows engineers to upgrade membership, failure thresholds, and the consensus protocol itself independently and with minimal global downtime. Our initial evaluation on the Rialo blockchain shows that this separation of concerns enables a seamless evolution of the SMR stack across a sequence of diverse protocol implementations. |
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| spellingShingle | It's not a lie if you don't get caught: simplifying reconfiguration in SMR through dirty logs Clement, Allen Crooks, Natacha Giridharan, Neil Shamis, Alex Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing Production state-machine replication (SMR) implementations are complex, multi-layered architectures comprising data dissemination, ordering, execution, and reconfiguration components. Existing research consensus protocols rarely discuss reconfiguration. Those that do tightly couple membership changes to a specific algorithm. This prevents the independent upgrade of individual building blocks and forces expensive downtime when transitioning to new protocol implementations. Instead, modularity is essential for maintainability and system evolution in production deployments. We present Gauss, a reconfiguration engine designed to treat consensus protocols as interchangeable modules. By introducing a distinction between a consensus protocol's inner log and a sanitized outer log exposed to the RSM node, Gauss allows engineers to upgrade membership, failure thresholds, and the consensus protocol itself independently and with minimal global downtime. Our initial evaluation on the Rialo blockchain shows that this separation of concerns enables a seamless evolution of the SMR stack across a sequence of diverse protocol implementations. |
| title | It's not a lie if you don't get caught: simplifying reconfiguration in SMR through dirty logs |
| topic | Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09441 |